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HAROLD WOODBURY PARSONS
CABLE ADDRESS: PINTON, NEW YORK 

EUROPEAN REPRESENTATIVE OF 
THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
CLEVELAND, OHIO 

ART ADVISOR TO THE 
WILLIAM ROCKHILL NELSON TRUST 
KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI
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345 Marlborough St. 
Boston,Massachusetts 
April 10,1940 

My dear Germain: 

It was with great regret that I read of the passing of Madame Jacques Seligmann;and I know that you will be deeply saddened by this news. But I do hope that your brief cruise will have been of benefit to you;and that you have come back rested and invigorated. 

I am going to New York Sunday night for a week, and shall be at The Dorset as usual. Milliken is arriving presently;and I expect to spend part of Monday and Tuesday with him;and will make every effort bring him in,if he has not already visited you before my arrival. 

Mr.Nichols is expected a little later;but I do not think he is in a buying mood. From all I have been able to discover, they will not go through with the Nesi proposition at this time;and may shelve it and make the English portrait an outstanding feature of next season's acquisitions. But I do not know as yet.Certainly there is no definite painting in mind;so we will discuss that point again when I see you. 

I suggested to Mr.Waegand,when he spoke to me on the telephone yesterday,that probably the difficulty of the insurance question on the loan of the Poussin from Kansas City could be adjusted,